Category: MOSS / SharePoint

To get the list of questions from a SP 2013+ Distribution list using OOTB REST API: _api/lists/getByTitle('listname')/items?$filter=ContentType eq 'Discussion' or /_api/lists/getByTitle('listname')/items?$filter=FSObjType eq 1 To get the list of replies from a SP 2013+ Distribution list, using OOTB REST API: _api/lists/getByTitle('listname')/items?$filter=ContentType eq 'Message' or /_api/lists/getByTitle('listname')/items?$filter=FSObjType eq 0 To get the list of Discussions with the replies count ...

A common error that you might face while doing site collection backups and restore is the following error: Could not deserialize site from E:\SiteCollection1.bak . Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException: Schema version of backup 15.0.4641.1000 does not match current schema version 15.0.4719.1000 at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite.Restore(String filename, Boolean isADMode, Boolean& readOnlyMode, Boolean& hadWriteLock) Note: You can capture this error ...

Scenario: Create a dashboard page in SP 2013, displaying just 3 lists in 3 different views using Js Link capability. The 3 lists are: Accordion: A list containing title and description which will be displayed on the dashboard with an accordion functionality with title being the accordion item heading and description being the accordion item body. Menu: ...

JsLink is a good feature that was introduced in SP 2013 to allow users to bring in more flexibility in Client Side Rendering (CSR). With this you can control how your list data is getting displayed in View, Display, Edit and New forms. For ex., you can achieve this using JSLink: You can check ...

This is a common error that you would have faced, while adding a WCF service endpoint to BCS through SharePoint Designer 2013, connected to Office 365. The complete error would look like this: Unknown Error occurred. Unable to load one or more of the requested types. Retrieve the LoaderExceptions property for more information. This is ...

This post is in continuation to my previous post on Building Excel reports from Project Server 2013 OData Services. Now that you have your Excel Report and started being innovative in building jazzy reports and dashboard, you might want to display it on your homepage so that you could get the snapshot of everything when you ...

This is quick walkthrough to showcase how you could build powerful reports from Project Server data online, in a jiffy. I am using the Project Online Subscription from Office 365. However, this should work with your on-premise Project Server 2013 setup as well. So no worries...Interestingly this technique can be extended to any other data ...